"The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type."

-- Edward Conlon

#Blood Quotes #Two Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
“Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.”
“I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.”

Source : Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.24, Harmony
“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.”
“The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.”
“Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.”
“If you don't have a goal, any road will do.”
“Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.”

Source : Stanislaw Lem (2012). “Imaginary Magnitude”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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